Sentences with phrase «if cellulosic»

High ethanol blended fuels, like E85, are not viable solutions for reaching renewable fuel consumption targets of the RFS, even if cellulosic standards are waived.

And, even if cellulosic ethanol is not competing with food, there are limits to the amount of biomass that we can find or grow to make the ethanol.

And if cellulosic or algae - based fuels become available, the ICE is going to give the BEV a real run for the money.

Not exact matches

If the boosters of ethanol master cellulosic conversion, they will then have to find an effective way to deliver large quantities of the new fuel to the market.

Tom Foust believes that if department scientists get all of their R&D dollars, cellulosic ethanol will be commercially competitive by 2012.

But 1 billion gallons of cellulosic by 2020 is an achievable goal, he said, and if the United States is to meet its promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions, it must maintain a commitment to biofuels.

Cellulosic biofuel could reduce our reliance on foreign petroleum without the problems associated with ethanol from corn — if we can figure out how to extract its energy economically

«If we could understand the structural differences, then we could potentially use that information to engineer better enzymes, which in turn could help reduce the cost of cellulosic biofuel and biochemical production,» said Beckham.

«But the returns are also high, and if we take key principles into account we can begin shaping the policies and practices that could help make cellulosic biofuels a triple win for the economy, the climate and for environmental sustainability in general.»

«One of the reasons for interest in these second - generation cellulosic feedstocks is that if they can be grown on low - quality soil, they wouldn't compete for land with food crops, such as corn.

But the research suggests that even if researchers maximized the capacity to grow biofuels on all marginal lands, «the amount of cellulosic ethanol it could produce is only enough to provide 1.5 percent of U.S. transportation fuel by 2020.»

Such a glut of cellulosic biofuel, if realized, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions — compared with oil that otherwise would have been burned — by 44 teragrams (44 billion kilograms) per year.

1 of cellulosic biofuels — using one - sixth of the world's cropland [or less land if yields significantly increase or algae - to - biofuels proves commercial at large scale].

If you're taking current photosynthesis, then there's many ways to do cellulosic processing, none of which should have gotten into the large - scale mainstream, but there's a lot of promise that that might happen.

Karen Street wrote: «If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar)...»

If we're going to address climate change, it's going to start with solutions experts agree on (efficiency, low - GHG sources such as nuclear, carbon capture and storage, wind, geothermal, cellulosic biofuels, and eventually solar), and processes that experts agree on (increasing the cost of GHG emissions, funding more R&D, mandates sometimes).

Surely, EPA has been warned about this by now, and I am sure that Alcohol production plants right now are unable to supply enough Cellulosic Alcohol to supply the entire U.S. needs if it these laws are mandated?

If current levels of crop waste were used to produce biogas, 500 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol could be produced every year.

The millions — if not billions — of gallons of cellulosic ethanol that motorists would be enjoying if the Bush administration's RFS targets had come true is a perfect example.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, cellulosic biomass has the potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 86 percent compared to petroleum - based fuels, if it can be produced on a large - scale basis.

The National Commission on Energy Policy reported in December that, if fleet mileage in the U.S. rises to 40 mpg — somewhat below the current European Union fleet average for new vehicles of 42 mpg and well below the current Japanese average of 47 mpg - then as switchgrass yields improve modestly to around 10 tons / acre it would take only 30 million acres of land to produce sufficient cellulosic ethanol to fuel half the U.S. passenger fleet.

If it were to operate on 85 percent cellulosic ethanol or a similar proportion of biodiesel or renewable diesel fuel, it would be achieving hundreds of miles per gallon of petroleum - derived fuel.

A plug - in hybrid averaging 125 mpg, if its fuel tank contains 85 per cent cellulosic ethanol, would be getting on the order of 500 mpg (of oil products).

If all of those cellulosic facilities that you have been talking about for years had delivered we would be swimming in cellulosic ethanol.

He «subscribes» to me through google alerts, so if I post an article on energy, he'll get an email and read my article — that's one of the reasons I wrote «Peak Oil and the Preservation of Knowledge», «Peak Soil: Why Cellulosic and other Biofuels are Not Sustainable and a Threat to America's National Security», «The Hydrogen Economy — Energy and Economic Black Hole», etc..

If it were to operate on 85 percent cellulosic ethanol or a similar proportion of biodiesel fuel, it would be achieving hundreds of miles per gallon of petroleum - derived fuel.

This may change if technology becomes available for the economically competitive production of energy from cellulosic materials as outlined in Section 3.

If refiners actually sell 17 million gallons of cellulosic in 2011, the RFS program will fall short of EISA's 250 million gallon target by 94 %.

Mandating the use of renewable fuels has, thus far, been a failed experiment; the lack of commercial - scale cellulosic biofuels plants in the U.S. has left it unclear if even a drop of cellulosic biofuel was blended into the fuel supply in 2011.

A good write - up of the economic challenges facing cellulosic biofuels can be found here, and the numbers in the nearby chart are the modern - day equivalent of the waves lapping at King Canute's feet — proof that a government order is meaningless if it flies in the face of reality.

If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.

If current coal - fired generating technology could be converted to use carbonized bio-waste, I doubt cellulosic ethanol would be viable.

Former Secretary of State George Shultz and former CIA director R. James Woolsey, co-chairs of a dire - sounding organization called The Committee on the Present Danger, wrote in a policy paper last year: «A plug - in hybrid averaging 125 mpg, if its fuel tank contains 85 per cent cellulosic ethanol, would be obtaining about 500 mpg [of gasoline].

If so, I suspect this would be a more cost - effective use of cellulosic bio-waste than a second conversion step to ethanlol.

And if we are smart and lucky, the cash flow from corn ethanol will provide the money and incentives to convert most of the production stream to cellulosic / duckweed / algal source materials in a decade or so.

And if he's smart (most are), he'll spend a little extra to make sure it can be converted to cellulosic ethanol if the time comes.

That alone is not security the only way we can produce enough domestically is if we greatly improve the technology used to produce cellulosic ethanol.

1/2 wedge of cellulosic biofuels for long - distance transport and what little aviation remains in 2050 — using 8 % of the world's cropland [or less land if yields significantly increase or algae - to - biofuels proves commercial at large scale].

You talked about a report that showed that cellulosic ethanol could actually be worse than gasoline / diesel in terms of CO2 emissions, but that's only if you consider the effects of the land no linger being a carbon sink.

Since cellulosic ethanol is created by using all of the parts of the plant being used (instead of the 10 %, mainly the edible part, of the plant), in all likelihood, if this process turns out to work as advertised, we could use the discarded parts of corn, or non-edible plants such as switchgrass, so food production would not have to be drastically increased.

1 of cellulosic biofuels — using one - sixth of the world's cropland [or less land if yields significantly increase or algae - to - biofuels proves commercial at large scale].